::''See
HMS ''Euryalus'' for other ships of this name.''
'HMS ''Euryalus''' was a 35-gun wooden screw
frigate of the
Royal Navy. She was launched at
Chatham in
1853, displaced 2,371 tons and had a complement of 515.
She arrived at
Yokohama on
14 September 1862, the date of the
Namamugi Incident, and served as Admiral Sir
Augustus Kuper's flagship during the
bombardment of Kagoshima in August 1863 and the
bombardment of Shimonoseki in September 1864, where
Duncan Gordon Boyes won his
Victoria Cross at the remarkably young age of 17.